Mexico’s Foreign Ministry has promised to «analyze» the request for help from drug trafficker Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, imprisoned in the United States, although it has implied that any decision in this regard depends more on the judiciary than the executive.
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel has asked Mexican authorities to transfer him from a prison in Colorado, where he is serving a life sentence, to a prison in Mexico, citing poor prison conditions.
The US Embassy in Mexico has confirmed that on January 10 it received an email from Guzman’s alleged lawyer with this request, which it then passed on to the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for further study.
«It is going to be analyzed as any request,» said the head for North America of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Velasco, who nevertheless pointed out that, in extraditions, the Government has little to say. «It is an issue that is fundamentally in the court of the judiciary,» he explained, according to the newspaper ‘El Universal’.
In July 2019, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was sentenced to life imprisonment by the US Justice on eight counts of drug trafficking and organized crime, 30 years in prison for carrying weapons and another 20 years in prison for money laundering.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
